{"id":7773,"date":"2013-07-25T13:52:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T13:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7773"},"modified":"2013-07-25T13:52:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T13:52:27","slug":"anc-names-two-new-south-african-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7773","title":{"rendered":"ANC names two new South African universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Academia_gallery_display.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7774\" alt=\"Academia_gallery_display\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Academia_gallery_display-300x219.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Academia_gallery_display-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Academia_gallery_display.jpg 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The new university being built in Kimberley next year will be called the Sol Plaatje University, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A new university in Nelspruit would be known as the University of Mpumalanga, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Our young people are hungry for education,&#8221; Zuma told reporters in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are establishing these institutions because we want every province in the country to provide an institution of higher learning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said the universities would initially take in fewer than 200 students each.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Zuma and Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande were giving an update on the progress made so far in establishing the two new universities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During his state-of-the-nation address, Zuma announced that construction on the universities was expected to start this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said that while the university&#8217;s would start operating next year, they would move into their new premises only in 2015. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new university being built in Kimberley next year will be called the Sol Plaatje University, President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. A new university in Nelspruit would be known as the University of Mpumalanga, he said. &#8220;Our young people are hungry for education,&#8221; Zuma told reporters in Pretoria. &#8220;We are establishing these institutions because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=7773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ANC names two new South African universities&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[166,4278,3542,4276,139,4277,4275],"class_list":["post-7773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-kimberley","tag-mpumalanga","tag-new","tag-pretoria","tag-sol-plaatje","tag-universities"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Academia_gallery_display.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7775,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions\/7775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}